Matthew Savage

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477 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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The Race F1 Podcast · Race Business: How Williams went from $200 million sale to being worth $2.5 billion · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think today we probably have a world-class wind tunnel that's very close to what Mercedes have.

So there are a lot of things happening in the background.

I do think, and I have this from personal experience of my banking days, the first management team in after taking over family business, it can be very, very difficult.

You're dealing with culture change, a lot of process and systems change.

And yes, Williams are world champions multiple times, but that was 30 years ago.

My math is right.

A long time ago and the world has changed.

And so, for example, one of my clients in my early days of banking was Hanson Trust.

Probably need to be of a certain age to remember that name.

But when they made acquisitions, for example, they used to send one team in for three to six months to do all the difficult things to begin with.

And it's almost a good cop, bad cop thing.

And they brought the good guys in after the fact to take the business forward.

But, you know, it's also the case that it was interesting.

JV told me the other day that he would not have taken the job in 2000.

2020.

I keep saying 2000, but 2020.

No, no, no.

But so, you know, at least, I mean, you can tell by that, what his comment, from his comment, right, that we must have done something in two years, otherwise he would not have joined us.

At the time we had, I think, a list of about 20 people that we were talking to.

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